I could also cite these quotes as evidence of two discourses within one practical movement to develop libre software. This is not evidence of the two movements claim, just another way of restating it as its own proof.

The difference in the discourse is fundamental. And I still do not know what you want me to prove. You do not prove your values.

This is not what I said.

I quote ( https://trisquel.info/en/forum/ive-probably-misunderstood-difference-between-open-source-and-free-software-movements#comment-87019 ): "Free code means the *code* is free, even though the software package, or services associated with it, might cost money". From that sentence, I understand "the code is gratis but anything built from it might cost money". It may be that my English is not good enough. But I am pretty sure that it is not "obvious in that context that [you] meant the code is *libre*".

Most people know what a library is; a place where books and other texts are available as a public commons, so people are free to read, study, share, and quote them.

Do you know a library that only has books under licenses such as the GNU FDL, the CC-BY or the CC BY-SA, which all let the reader copy the book, with or without modifications, and redistribute it (even for profit)? I do not. That is why I think "libre as library" does not get the meaning across. The freedoms (you listed) that are enjoyed by readers of most books are a rather small subset of the freedoms that free software grants.

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